In table A of the HTML version of the news release, the values in the column showing seasonally adjusted 3-month changes ending in June 2017 were incorrect as originally published. These values have been corrected. The PDF version of the news release showed the correct values as it was originally published.

During the preparation of the news release "Employee Benefits in the United States — March 2017," the Bureau of Labor Statistics identified a possible error in estimates of access to paid sick leave benefits for March 2010 through March 2016. BLS is evaluating the implications of this possible error and will correct the affected estimates as needed. For additional information see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/ebs-errata-07212017.htm.

Incorrect estimates of earnings and hours for New Jersey were removed from the database on June 20, 2017. Corrected estimates will be added to the database on July 21, 2017. More information about the affected series is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Average prices for gasoline for Cleveland-Akron, Ohio, Midwest Size A, and the Midwest urban were incorrect as originally published for the period from October 2016 through January 2017. Corrected estimates were added to the database Wednesday, June 14, 2017. The following series are affected by this correction.

Occupational Requirements Survey estimates as originally released on December 1, 2016, contained errors within minimum education level and pushing/pulling requirements. For information regarding this correction, see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/ors-errata-05112017.

As initially published, the time period stated in the second paragraph under the Energy heading incorrectly stated: From February 2015–February 2016. The release was republished with the time period corrected to: From February 2016–February 2017.

Five labels about detailed provisions of defined benefit retirement plans were incorrect as initially published in the database on September 23, 2016. This error affected 120 data series about integration with Social Security benefits, terminal earnings, and disability retirement provisions. The correction was posted in the database on February 13, 2017.

BLS reissued this release February 8, 2017, to correct 2015 annual average data for the nonfinancial corporate sector as shown in table 6 and appendix table 1. These measures reflect corrected source data on output reissued by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on February 6, 2017.

BLS reissued the Business Employment Dynamics release for the second quarter of 2016 on January 26, 2017 to correct a statement referencing state-level data. The original sentence erroneously stated "Indiana and Michigan had the lowest rate of gross job losses as a percent of employment." This was changed to read "Indiana and Massachusetts had the lowest rate of gross job losses as a percent of employment."

The headline and the first paragraph incorrectly stated that 74 percent of private industry workers participate in a savings and thrift plans. The text was corrected to show that 44 percent of private industry workers participate in any kind of defined contribution plan. Of those participants, 74 percent were in a savings and thrift plan.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics identified errors in metropolitan area and division hours and earnings series. These errors affect close to 1,000 series across approximately 350 metropolitan areas and divisions. No statewide employment, hours, or earnings data were affected. More information about these errors and the plan for correcting them is at https://www.bls.gov/sae/saesup2016.htm.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics identified several incorrect national-level fatality rates and hours worked in the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). The affected data were fatal occupational injury rates and the total hours worked for 12 occupations, 2 industries, and Asian, non-Hispanic workers. The affected data were not in the LABSTAT database, but appear in several BLS products. These products are listed at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/cfoi-errata-2016.htm. As of December 14, 2016, BLS was able to identify errors for the 2014 reference year. BLS is in the process of evaluating previous years to determine if similar problems exist.

The 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 editions of the Women in the Labor Force: a databook were reissued on December 9, 2016 to correct errors in five tables. Errors were found in the table describing the work experience of the population (table 22 in the 2013 edition, and table 23 in the 2014 and 2015 editions). Errors occurred in some of the historical data entries for the level and percentage of people "With work experience." Some of the estimates for the 2010–13 period showed the number (and percentage of population) of people who worked or looked for work during those years; the figures were corrected to show only the number (and percent) of people who worked during the year. Errors were found in the table describing the number of earners in married-couple families (table 24 in the 2014 and 2015 editions); errors occurred in some of the historical data entries for both the level and percent distribution of families with two or more earners where the earners are "Wife and other family member." Some of the estimates for levels in the 2011, 2012, and 2013 periods showed an error, which affected the percent distribution; the figures were corrected. Errors were found in the table describing self-employment in nonagricultural industries (table 33 in the 2012 and 2013 editions, and table 32 in the 2014 and 2015 editions); errors occurred in some of the historical data entries for "total employed" and "self-employed as a percentage of total." Some of the estimates for the 2011–14 period showed total employed in all industries; the figures were corrected to show total employed in nonagricultural industries.

As initially published, the year in the title of the data table accompanying Chart 5 incorrectly stated a reference year of 2014. The article was republished with the year in the table corrected to 2015.

Data for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions in Wisconsin or with parts in Wisconsin and data for metropolitan areas in Montana were subject to revision from January 1990 through December 1999 to incorporate special corrections to the not-seasonally-adjusted input data for selected months and subsequent re-fitting of the seasonal adjustment models for that decade. Unemployment rates were mostly unchanged, and differed by more than 0.2 percentage point in just one metropolitan area for five months.

Due to incorrect processing, substate area data for Wisconsin in July 1998 and Montana in all months of 1999 did not reflect the appropriate statewide controls for employment and unemployment. Interstate areas with parts in Wisconsin also were impacted in July 1998. The corrections process consisted of simple ratio adjustment to the current statewide controls. Unemployment rates were mostly unchanged, and differed by a maximum of 0.5 percentage point in just one instance.

Due to the correction of May 2016 through August 2016 CPI data, the estimate for seasonally adjusted median weekly earnings for men in constant (1982–84) dollars for the second quarter of 2016 was revised. No other median weekly earnings data were changed.

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10/18/2016

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Due to an error in CPI data for May 2016 through August 2016, all real earnings series, as published for those months, were subject to correction. All real earnings series were recalculated using corrected CPI indexes. Corrected data are labeled with a (C) on the BLS website as of Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 8:30am.

The indexes for Prescription drugs were incorrect as published for May 2016 through August 2016, which affected the U.S. All items index. Incorrect prices were used in the calculation of indexes in several local areas. A list of the series affected by the errors can be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/cpi-price-corrections-10182016.htm.

The article originally stated that the professional and business services industry experienced the largest 12-month percent increase in employment among major industries. The article was corrected to show that the construction industry had the largest 12-month percent increase among major industries.

The headline on the BLS homepage for the Employment Cost Index news release originally said that compensation costs rose 2.3 percent over the year ending in March 2016. The headline was soon corrected to say the year ending in June 2016.

On June 1, 2016, corrections were issued for all cities and city parts in Minnesota for January and February 2016. The errors had resulted from incorrect processing of unemployment insurance claims inputs. Unemployment levels were revised downward by as much as one-third, and associated unemployment rates were revised downward by as much as 2.2 percentage points. The average unemployment level decline was 7.4 percent, and most of the unemployment rate declines were less than 0.5 percentage point.

On April 27, 2016, corrections were issued for substate areas in Kentucky, as well as eight interstate areas with parts in Kentucky, for January 2016. The establishment-based nonfarm wage and salary employment inputs to household employment were overestimated in Fulton, Harlan, Russell, and Union counties. Employment in all other counties in the state was affected, but the corrections outside of those four counties were relatively small. While unemployment rates were revised upward by between 0.3 and 0.7 percentage point across the four counties directly affected by the employment input corrections, rates changed by no more than 0.1 point in the remaining areas affected, and most had no rate change.

Due to an error in the collection of utility (piped) gas service prices in Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI, the following series were corrected for January through February 2016. We corrected utility (piped) gas and energy services, and the average retail price per therm of utility gas. For the C-CPI-U, we corrected housing, fuels and utilities, services, and energy.

Seasonally-adjusted employment and unemployment estimates for both the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Balance of Michigan, state less Detroit-Warren-Dearborn MSA in July 1998 were modified to better reflect the impact of a large-scale labor dispute. (See https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASMT261982000000003 and https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASBS260000000000003, respectively.) The corrected data are more consistent with the corresponding estimates for Michigan as a whole, based on long-standing outlier treatment.

As originally published, the third bullet point below paragraph one contained an error that stated in private industry, the highest total recordable cases (TRC) injury and illness incidence rate by employment size was 4.7 for mid-size establishments (those employing between 50 and 249 workers); the highest TRC injury and illness incidence rate was 5.0 for large establishments (those employing 1,000 or more workers).

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation for the Regions — December 2015 (HTML) (PDF)

As originally published, paragraph one contained an error that stated the highest pay among Census divisions was $37.62 per hour in the Middle Atlantic; the correct highest pay was $38.14 in New England.

This release was reissued February 16, 2016, to correct an error in the labor composition estimates for manufacturing. All references to labor composition have been removed from the release. In addition, measures for the manufacturing sector, nondurable manufacturing sector, and industry multifactor productivity and manufacturing sector combined units of all inputs were affected by this error.

The table columns for the November 2014 and November 2015 employment levels incorrectly showed the October 2014 and October 2015 levels. The tables were corrected to show the November 2014 and 2015 levels.

This article was corrected on January 6, 2016. In the last paragraph of the "Sector highlights" section, the word "nonagricultural" was removed because the data here refer to total wage and salary employment.

Several errors have been identified in the monthly expenditure weights used to calculate the Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U) series for January 2013 through November 2015. A list of the series affected by the weighting errors can be found at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/cpi-weights-corrections-01052016.htm. The corresponding CPI-U and CPI-W series are not affected.

Some average prices for electricity and utility (piped) gas were incorrect as initially published for November 2015. These average prices have been corrected in the database. These errors did not affect other published tables or related index values. The full list of series affected by this correction is at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/average-price- corrections-12172015.htm.

This article was corrected on December 10, 2015. In figure 2B, several of the projected labor force participation rates for 1996–2006 and 2000–10 originally shown in the figure were somewhat lower than the rates BLS actually projected. In figure 3C, the base year labor force participation rate for 2000–10 was corrected to 67.1 instead of 67.2.

Within the leveling instructions and points on page 66, the maximum for level 7 and the minimum for level 8 were incorrect. The maximum points for level 7 has been corrected to 1604 and the minimum for level 8 has been corrected to 1605. No other data were affected.

Table 2 contained two errors. The asterisk (*) used to indicate whether a metropolitan area expenditure share was significantly different from the U.S. average was incorrect for the Boston and Cleveland housing shares. The Boston housing share was not significantly different and should not have shown an asterisk; the Cleveland housing share was significantly different and should have shown an asterisk. These changes have been made in the current release.

Table 2 contained two errors. The asterisk (*) used to indicate whether a metropolitan area expenditure share was significantly different from the U.S. average was incorrect for the Boston and Cleveland housing shares. The Boston housing share was not significantly different and should not have shown an asterisk; the Cleveland housing share was significantly different and should have shown an asterisk. These changes have been made in the current release.

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11/24/2015

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Hours and earnings data and related series from March 2006 through February 2009 for all employees in total private, private service- providing, education and health services, membership associations and organizations, and other services have been suppressed because of an error introduced during the 2009 benchmark revision. Corrected data will be available on February 5, 2016. For more information, please see: www.bls.gov/ces/cesaeppfix.htm.

The Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers news releases for the first, second, and third quarters of 2015 were reissued on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, to correct errors in table 1 of the release. An incorrect price index was used to compute seasonally adjusted median weekly earnings in constant dollars for total, men, and women, affecting data for the first quarter 2010 through the third quarter 2015. These estimates have been recalculated using the correct price index. No other series in the news release were affected by the error.

Within the leveling instructions and points on page 66, the point range for work level 6 had an incorrect maximum points of 1355. This overlapped with work level 7. The maximum points for level 6 has been corrected to 1354. No other work levels were affected.

Statewide employment data for West Virgnia and employment data in casino hotels for Atlantic City–Hammonton, NJ, were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on October 20, 2015. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

BLS discovered an error in the software that produces Consumer Price Index average prices affecting average price calculations for some alcoholic beverages during the April–July 2015 period; associated index values are not affected by this error. Corrected data for April 2015– June 2015, as well as data for July 2015 are available in the Average Price Database. The series affected are for Malt beverages, all types, all sizes, any origin, per 16 oz. (473.2 ml) and Wine, red and white table, all sizes, any origin, per 1 liter (33.8 oz.), for the following areas: U.S. city average, Northeast, Midwest, South, and West.

Statewide employment data for Ohio were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on July 21, 2015. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On April 28, 2015, BLS issued revised seasonally adjusted estimates from March 2010 through December 2014 as part of its annual revision process. With this revision, BLS corrected errors in the indirectly seasonally adjusted series for December 2013 through December 2014. Estimates in the public database and historical listings reflect the corrected data. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/eci_errata_07212015.htm. For further information on the ECI seasonal adjustment process see www.bls.gov/ncs/ect/ectsfact.htm.

BLS corrected a number in the first sentence of the conclusion to say, "The prevalence of savings and thrift plans increased 10 percentage points from 2009 to 2012, unlike other types of defined contribution plans, which did not change significantly." The original sentence incorrectly said 6 percentage points, instead of 10 percentage points.

On July 1, 2015, BLS incorrectly copied seasonally adjusted employment estimates for the New Orleans-Metairie, Louisiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to the Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana, MSA for the period from January through May 2015. This resulted in the calculation of substantially higher civilian labor force levels and substantially lower unemployment rates than were appropriate for Shreveport-Bossier City in these months. BLS corrected the supplemental data files on July 10, 2015, to reflect the appropriate seasonally adjusted employment estimates for Shreveport-Bossier City.

Minor corrections were made to employment estimates for areas in Oregon from January 2013 through February 2015, with changes in unemployment rates of no more than 0.1 percentage point. Corrections were made to unemployment estimates for areas in Washington from January 2012 through March 2015, with some sizeable changes in unemployment rates. Corrections also were made to employment estimates for areas in Puerto Rico from January 2010 through March 2015. Except for a few heavily agricultural areas, the employment corrections and associated unemployment rate changes for Puerto Rico areas were mostly small. All corrected estimates were noted in the BLS database on July 1, 2015.

BLS reissued this release on June 10, 2015, to correct errors in NAICS 3121, beverages; 312, beverages and tobacco products; 3241, petroleum and coal products; 324, petroleum and coal products; and 3345, electronic instruments. Corrections have been made to tables 1, 2, and 3; no changes were required to the text or charts of the news release.

Statewide employment data for North Dakota and Oregon and employment and earnings data for metropolitan areas in those and other states were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on May 27, 2015. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On April 29, 2015, BLS corrected January 2015 labor force estimates for all substate areas in Idaho, Iowa, Georgia, Vermont, and Puerto Rico, and 17 interstate areas with parts in these states. The errors for Idaho, Iowa, Georgia, and Puerto Rico had resulted from incorrect employment estimates, while the errors for Vermont had resulted from incorrect unemployment insurance claims estimates.

Employment data for Virginia and employment and earnings data for some metropolitan areas in other states were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on April 21, 2015. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

BLS reissued the HTML version of this news release on April 1, 2015, to correctly refer to the latter years of the baby boom as 1957-1964 in the section on Percent Growth in Real Earnings. This error did not appear in the PDF version of the news release.

Incorrect employment data for Knoxville, Tennessee, were published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on March 27, 2015. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On March 25, 2015, corrections were made to Table A. The January 2015 monthly and annual percent changes listed February 2015 data; the February 2015 cells were blank. January 2015 data have been added and the February 2015 data are now in the correct cell.

This article, published on October 26, 2009, contained several errors.

In table 2, on page 3, the participation in stand-alone dental plans should have been 8 percent and with access to stand-alone dental plans should have been 12 percent.

In table 4, on page 5, the full-time annual hours worked should have been 1,857 for service workers in local government. Private industry management, professional, and related full-time workers should have been 1,862 and part-time workers 872 annual hours. The private industry service full-time workers should have been 1,911 and the part-time workers 998 annual hours.

On page 5, the state and local government average employer health cost should have been $6,340.60 per employee and the private sector $3,526.84.

On page 7, the private industry costs for health care in management, professional, and related workers should have been 34 percent higher than service workers. The employer share of health costs for management, professional, and related workers should have been 78 percent.

On page 7, the percent of full-time workers in jobs where the establishment does not differentiate between sampled full-time and part-time jobs when offering health care plans should have been 88 percent.

On March 17, 2015, corrections were made to seasonally adjusted data for Puerto Rico from January 1976 through December 2009. These data are available at https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST720000000000003. BLS inadvertently posted changes to these seasonally adjusted series on March 4, 2015. The March 17 corrections restore the data that had been overwritten.

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02/26/2015

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Folding boxes and misc. paperboard containers manufacturing employment (seasonally adjusted) from 1990 to 2006 was incorrect due to a data processing error. The error was introduced during the 2011 benchmark (PDF), released in January 2012. The corrected data was published on February 26, 2015.

Some January 2015 estimates of unemployed persons by occupation, industry, and duration of unemployment were incorrect in table A-37. Corrections were minor. A corrected table was published on February 13, 2015.

BLS reissued the HTML version of the Employment Situation for January 2015 on February 6, 2015, to correct a sign in table C from negative to positive. The table shows how the January 2015 adjustments of population estimates affected monthly changes in selected measures. For the employed, the change from December 2014 to January 2015 after removing the population control effect incorrectly appeared as -435,000. The correct value is +435,000.

The last bullet under the heading "New England Computer & Electronic Products Exports by Trade-Dollar Value, 2013" was corrected to read "With $12.9 billion in exports, New England accounted for 6.3 percent of total U.S. exports."

Incorrect employment data for Arizona were published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on December 19, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On December 4, 2014, the percentage of total expenditures on gifts of goods and services for housing was incorrectly published as 18.6 percent within the data table associated with the chart. The correct value of 18.7 percent was published on December 8, 2014.

On December 2, 2014, the number of fatalities in July was corrected in the sentence: July had the highest number of fatal occupational injuries (11,168), and the fewest number of injuries occurred in February (8,008). Also, the word "average" was erroneously used to describe the "total" number of fatal injuries during the winter months. The sentence was corrected to: In comparison, the winter months of December, January, and February totaled 25,380 fatal injuries (22 percent).

The PDF version of Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — October 2014 was reissued on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, to correct two column headers (the second and fourth) on table E. The erroneous column headers read "September 2014" and "Over-the-month change p" but should have read "October 2013" and "Over-the-year change p". No changes were made to data in the table.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for Arizona were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on November 21, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

In the data table titled, "CPI Item Categories that Utilize Hedonic Quality Adjustments," the relative importance for Rent of Primary Residence was incorrectly published as 0.977 on October 22, 2014. The corrected value of 6.977 was published on October 23, 2014.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for Arizona were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on October 21, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in the Days of Job Transfer or Restriction reports for 2011 and 2012. Corrections will not be made to these reports. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in data tables and charts for reference years 2011 and 2012. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in data tables and charts for reference years 2011 and 2012. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in news releases for reference years 2011 and 2012. Corrections will not be made to these news releases. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

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10/09/2014

Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities

News release

Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Requiring Days Away From Work — 2012 and 2011

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in news releases for reference years 2011 and 2012. Corrections will not be made to these news releases. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

Because of data processing errors, national-level estimates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses were incorrectly published in the BLS database for reference years 2011 and 2012. These estimates were removed from the database on October 9, 2014. For additional information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/iif_errata_1014.htm.

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages released updated annual averages for 2013 in several formats, including the CSV file format. Within the CSV files, annual average pay was incorrect by a factor of 10. (For example, $57,000 was shown as $5,700.) This was the only incorrect field within the CSV files. This error was present on the 2013 annual average CSV archives accessible from the Data Download section, the QCEW Data Viewer, and the Open Data Access Files. The incorrect files were removed from the BLS website after 3:00 p.m. Thursday, September 25, 2014. This error did not appear in other QCEW products, such as the ENB text files, the County High-Level files, the Location Quotient Calculator, the State and County Map, and Create Customized Tables. The correct 2013 annual average data available from these sources will remain available to the public. Corrected data files were posted the afternoon of September 30.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for some states and metropolitan areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on September 19, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

As a result of problems implementing the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification, the December 2013 and March 2014 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation data contained errors when originally published. The errors were in the management, professional, and related occupational group and sub-groups in civilian, private industry, and state and local government. For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/ecec_correction_091014.htm. These errors were initially reported on August 27, 2014, in Errata ID 224.

The May 2011, 2012, and 2013 OES wage estimates for elementary school teachers, except special education, in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisconsin and statewide in Wisconsin were incorrectly published in the BLS database. Additionally, the May 2011, 2012, and 2013 employment estimates for the following occupations in Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisconsin were incorrectly published in the BLS database:

Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School

These estimates were removed from the database on September 8th, 2014. Revised estimates will not be published because of continuing concerns about their quality.

The total nonfarm over-the-month change for July 2014 on the CES Net Birth/Death Model page was incorrectly published as 1,110,000 on September 5, 2014 at 8:30 AM. The corrected change of -1,110,000 was published on September 5, 2014 at 3:00 PM.

Due to data processing problems, the December 2013 and March 2014 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation estimates for the management, professional, and related occupational group and sub-groups are incorrect as published. The database and historical listings will be corrected soon. The upcoming news release for June 2014 estimates is scheduled to be released on September 10, 2014. Historical news releases will not be corrected. See Errata ID 227 for updated information about the correction of these errors.

Multifactor productivity data for the private business and private nonfarm business sectors were corrected on August 21, 2014. The correction is a result of an error in unpublished BLS source data on unpaid family worker hours in 2012. Only data for 2012 were affected; measures for all other years were correct as originally published April 3, 2014. For more information see https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/2012_mfp_correction.htm.

The index for electricity for Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI, was incorrect as published for June 2014. The average price for electricity per kilowatt hour for Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI, was also affected. Several incorrect prices were used in the calculation of the indexes and average prices. The corrected indexes and average prices were corrected on August 19, 2014, and are available in the CPI public databases and on tables 15, 16, 22, and 23 of both the June and July 2014 CPI Detailed Reports.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for the leisure and hospitality industry in Sandusky, Ohio, was incorrectly published in the BLS database. The estimate was corrected on August 18, 2014. More information about the correction is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

The Editor's Desk article published August 14, 2014, originally used seasonally adjusted data. It is customary for the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey program to use not seasonally adjusted data for year-to-year comparisons. This TED and chart have been revised to reflect this.

Multifactor productivity data for the private business and private nonfarm business sectors were corrected July 9, 2014. Capital income and labor compensation were incorrectly calculated for the period 1987 to 1989. Additionally the capital hours ratio for the private nonfarm business sector was affected in 1987. For further information see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/1987- 89_mfp_correction.htm

Because of a data processing error, employment data for some states and metropolitan areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on June 20, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On May 28, 2014, corrections were made to estimates of civilian labor force and unemployment levels and unemployment rates for all substate areas in Nevada, as well as the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Yuba City, CA–NV Combined Statistical Area, for January 2014 and February 2014. The errors resulted from incorrect information about unemployment insurance claims.

This news release was reissued on May 16, 2014, to correct errors in table 2. The numbers in the rows for men and women not enrolled in school with "Less than a bachelor's degree" were incorrect as originally published. Those numbers originally showed only persons with associate's degrees. Persons with some college, no degree have been added to those with associate's degrees and the corrected totals are now listed on the rows labeled "Less than a bachelor's degree."

Because of a data processing error, employment data for some states and metropolitan areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on May 16, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for the Ocean City, NJ, metropolitan area were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on April 18, 2014. More information about the corrections is available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

The indexes for Utility (piped) gas service for the Size class D and Midwest – Size class D, and Energy services for Midwest- Size class D were incorrect as published for January 2014. The average price for Utility (piped) gas per therm for the Size class D and Midwest – Size class D were also affected. Several incorrect prices were used in the calculation of the January indexes and average prices. The corrected indexes and average prices were corrected on April 15, 2014, and are available in the CPI public databases and are available on tables 12, 13, 19, 20, P2, and 1C in the March 2014 CPI Detailed Report.

The Spotlight on Statistics published on March 21, 2014, showed an error on the map on slide #2. The national rate of occupational injuries and illnesses among state and local government workers appeared incorrectly as 5.6 cases per 100 full-time workers. The map was corrected on March 24, 2014, to show the national rate of 5.7 cases per 100 full-time workers.

On February 20, 2014, corrections were made to tables 2, 3, 4, and 5 of this article. The tables, as originally published, included estimates that were calculated using incorrect weights for some of the wage observations from the National Compensation Survey sample.

Annual revisions to Business Employment Dynamics series are published with the release of first quarter data. However, revisions to establishment birth and death data were not included in the first quarter 2013 release. These data will be updated with the release of second quarter 2013 data on January 29, 2014. Table 8 of the news release will be updated on January 29, along with the birth and death data at the national industry level and the total private state level data.

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01/10/2014

Employment Projections

Other publication

Education and training outlook for occupations, 2012–22

The percent distribution for occupations that typically require a bachelor's degree was missing from the pie chart on page 1.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for some states and metropolitan areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on December 20, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Totals for the professional and related occupations category were incorrectly defined in four Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) tables containing historical data: (1) Fatal occupational injuries by selected characteristics, 2003-2012, (2) Fatal occupational injuries incurred by Hispanic or Latino workers, 2008-2012, (3) Fatal occupational injuries incurred by foreign-born workers by selected characteristics, 2008-2012, and (4) Fatal occupational injuries incurred by foreign-born Hispanic or Latino workers, 2008-2012. The 13 data points that were affected have been corrected and are denoted by an asterisk. This problem did not affect any of the CFOI news releases and only affected data prior to 2011 for this occupation.

Chart 4 on the Beveridge Curve and the fourth bullet on the same page incorrectly showed the national unemployment rate for October 2013. The chart and text were corrected to indicate the correct rate of 7.3 percent.

The May 2012 OES wage estimates for bus drivers, transit and intercity in Spokane, WA, were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were removed from the database on December 2, 2013. Revised estimates will not be published because of continuing concerns about their quality.

Because of a data processing error, employment data for some states and metropolitan areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on November 22, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

The columns in chart 1 were incorrectly labeled and thus appeared to contradict the text that stated (correctly) that computer and electronic product manufacturing was California's largest export in 2012 ($44.8 billion). The third bullet point under "Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing" should have said "lower prices for computer peripherals and communications equipment" (not "higher prices").

The average prices for Bacon, sliced, per lb. (453.6 gm) for the U.S. city average and Northeast region were incorrect as published for January through July 2013. An incorrect price was used in the calculation of the average prices. The corrected average prices are available in the CPI public database for Average Prices (series ID APU0000701322 and APU0100701322).

197

10/30/2013

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

September 2013 CPI Detailed Report

The average prices for Bacon, sliced, per lb. (453.6 gm) for the U.S. city average and Northeast region were incorrect as published for January through July 2013. An incorrect price was used in the calculation of the average prices. The corrected average prices are available in table P4 of the September 2013 CPI Detailed Report.

The 2012 average housing expenditure per consumer unit shown in the second chart and table was incorrect as originally published September 12, 2013. The correct amount ($16,887) was published September 16.

195

09/11/2013

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

July 2013 CPI Detailed Report

The July 2013 average price for U.S. city average Turkey, frozen, whole, per lb. (453.6 gm) was incorrect as published in the July 2013 CPI Detailed Report. An incorrect price was used in the calculation of the average price. The corrected average price will be available on table P4 of the August 2013 CPI Detailed Report.

The July 2013 average price for U.S. city average Turkey, frozen, whole, per lb. (453.6 gm) was incorrect as published in the CPI public database for Average Prices. An incorrect price was used in the calculation of the average price. The corrected average price will be available on September 17 in the CPI public database for Average Prices (series ID APU0000706311).

Corrections were made to labor force, employment, and unemployment rate estimates for all substate areas in New Jersey and most substate areas in West Virginia from January to May of 2013. Selected interstate areas with several neighboring states were impacted as well. Also, the unemployment rate for Owls Head town, ME, was corrected for March 2013, due to a rounding error. Affected areas have been footnoted as corrected for the appropriate months in the time series database.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on August 19, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Data for the nonfinancial corporate sector are not available because of corrections to source data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis received August 15, as noted at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/gdp2q13_adv.htm. These corrections could not be included in time for this news release. Measures for all other sectors are correct. BLS nonfinancial corporate sector data will be published with the next regularly scheduled Productivity and Costs news release on September 5, 2013, at 8:30 a.m.

Data for the nonfinancial corporate sector are not available because of corrections to source data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis received August 15, as noted at http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2013/gdp2q13_adv.htm. BLS nonfinancial corporate sector data will be available in the BLS database with the next regularly scheduled Productivity and Costs news release on September 5, 2013, at 8:30 a.m.

A sentence in the section on "Import petroleum prices" originally said, "As a result, Libyan petroleum exports fell from more than 1.5 billion barrels a day before the crisis to 200,000 barrels a day by April." That sentence has been corrected to say 1.5 million barrels a day instead of 1.5 billion.

Corrections were made to labor force, employment, and unemployment estimates for selected substate areas in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska from January to April of 2013. Affected areas have been footnoted as corrected for the appropriate months in the time series database.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on July 18, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation data for September 2012 and December 2012 contained errors in several series and have been corrected in the public database and historical listings available on the BLS website. The primary errors were in insurance data for private industry. Some additional series were also corrected. The news releases will not be corrected. For further information see: www.bls.gov/bls/eci_corrections_043013.htm.

Multifactor productivity data for the private business and private nonfarm business sectors for 2012 were corrected on July 19, 2013. Measures for capital services were incorrectly calculated for 2012. Measures of multifactor productivity, output per unit of capital services, combined inputs, capital services per hour, and the contribution of capital intensity were affected by this error. Only data for 2012 were affected; measures for all other years were correct as originally published June 28, 2013. For further information see www.bls.gov/bls/errata/prelimmfp_errata.htm

This release was reissued July 19, 2013, to correct multifactor productivity and related measures for the private business and private nonfarm business sectors. Measures for capital services were incorrectly calculated for 2012. Measures of multifactor productivity, output per unit of capital services, combined inputs, capital services per hour, and the contribution of capital intensity were affected by this error. Only data for 2012 were affected; measures for all other years were correct as originallly published June 28, 2013.

182

07/09/2013

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Employment Cost Index data for September 2012, December 2012, and March 2013 contained errors in several series and have been corrected in the public database and historical listings available on the BLS website. The primary errors were in benefits data for private industry. Some additional series were also corrected. The news releases will not be corrected. For further information see: www.bls.gov/bls/eci_corrections_043013.htm.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on June 20, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

This report was reissued on June 6, 2013, to correct errors in table 2. The numbers in the rows for Central and South Americans and for Other Hispanics were incorrect due to a programming error; some individuals who should have been classified as Other Hispanics were included in the estimates for Central and South Americans. Also, a sentence on page 1, at the end of the second bulleted item, now contains corrected information about Central and South Americans.

Labor productivity and costs data released May 2, 2013 contained incorrect hours worked and related measures, including labor productivity, for the business and nonfarm business sectors for the first quarter of 2013 only. Labor productivity and costs data released June 5, 2013, incorporate corrected hours data in addition to other revised source data.

In this news release, published May 2, 2013, measures of hours worked and labor productivity were incorrect for the business and nonfarm business sectors for the first quarter of 2013. Results for the manufacturing sector were correct as originally published. The Productivity and Costs — First Quarter 2013, Revised news release, published June 5, 2013 (HTML) (PDF), incorporates corrected hours data in addition to other revised source data. The preliminary news release will not be reissued.

On May 24, 2013, corrections were made to the significant change tables for January, February, and March 2013. The errors occurred in the calculation of standard errors, resulting in the incorrect designation of changes as statistically significant or not for the following six estimates:

January 2013

The over-the-year change in the job openings rate for the West region was corrected from blank to "YES."

The over-the-year change in the job openings level for durable goods manufacturing was corrected from blank to "YES."

The over-the-year change in the job openings level for nondurable goods manufacturing was corrected from blank to "YES."

February 2013

The over-the-month change in the job openings rate for total nonfarm was corrected from blank to "YES."

The over-the-year change in the total separations rate for professional and business services was corrected from "YES" to blank.

March 2013

The over-the-year change in the other separations level for leisure and hospitality was corrected from blank to "YES."

On May 29, 2013, corrections were made to estimates of labor force, employment, and unemployment levels and unemployment rates for all substate areas in New Mexico for January 2013 and February 2013. The errors resulted from incorrect information about unemployment insurance claims.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on May 17, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

In tables DJTR R4 and DJTR R8, the data in the tables did not match the table title descriptions. The data that were presented were for "part of body", while the table titles indicated "event or exposure". The tables were corrected by replacing the "part of body" data and column titles with" event or exposure" data and column titles.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on April 19, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

The Regional and State Unemployment — 2012 Annual Averages release was reissued at 10:00 A.M., April 3, 2013, to incorporate minor corrections to employment and labor force estimates for Nebraska and, to an even lesser extent, the six other states in the West North Central division, due to an estimation error. Nebraska's 2011 unemployment rate changed from 4.5 to 4.4 percent, and its 2011 employment-population ratio changed from 68.4 to 68.6 percent. Missouri's 2011 employment-population ratio changed from 59.6 to 59.5 percent. The state employment- population ratio analysis, as well as tables A, 1, and 2, have been modified accordingly.

On March 29, 2013, corrections were made to estimates of labor force and employment levels and unemployment rates for Nebraska and, to a lesser extent, the six other states in the West North Central division (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota). These corrections involved monthly estimates from January 2008 through December 2012 and annual average estimates for 2008–2012, and resulted from a minor error in the model reestimation process.

In Table 1, the data under the "January 2013" header are correct for all the items except butter. The 3.501 price for butter is for January 2012, not January 2013. In the fourth paragraph the statement "By 2013, prices for coffee, steak (round and sirloin), chuck roast, bacon, and cheese were all significantly higher than butter" was amended as follows: "By 2013, prices for coffee, steak (round and sirloin), chuck roast, bacon, and cheese were all significantly higher than the price of butter (using the January 2012 average price for butter of $3.50 because average price data for January 2013 were not available at the time for publication)."

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on March 29, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

166

03/27/2013

National Longitudinal Surveys

News release

America's Youth at 25: School Enrollment, Number of Jobs Held and Labor Market Activity: Results from a Longitudinal Survey (HTML) (PDF)

This release was reissued on March 22, 2013, to correct data in table 4 for Hispanic or Latino high school graduates, never enrolled in college. The percent of total weeks unemployed while ages 22 to 25, which originally was shown as 68.7 percent, was corrected to say 6.9 percent. This correction to table 4 was made in the PDF version of the release.

On March 22, 2013, tables 1 and 2 were corrected in the HTML version of the release. In table 1, the column for young adults with a bachelor's degree or more incorrectly excluded data from 2010. This entire column has been corrected to include the most recent information from 2010. In table 2 of the HTML version of the release, among high school graduates who had never enrolled in college, the percent of men who were employed civilians, which originally was shown as 81.8 percent, has been corrected to show 81.6 percent; the percent of women serving in the Armed Forces, which originally was shown as 0.5 percent, has been corrected to show 0.7 percent.

The HTML version of this release was reissued on March 27, 2013, to include missing data in table 4. The row for Hispanic or Latino high school graduates who had never enrolled in college, which was incorrectly omitted during the March 22 update, was reinserted with correct data.

This report was reissued on March 26, 2013, to correct errors in table 26. The numbers in the rows for women who worked full time incorrectly showed the numbers for men and vice versa. There were similar errors in the rows for women and men who worked part time.

164

03/26/2013

American Time Use Survey

Survey microdata

2010 Well-Being Module

Due to a programming error in the data collection software, certain activities were less likely than others to be selected for follow-up questions in the Well-Being Module. More information about the correction is available at https://www.bls.gov/tus/wbnotice.htm.

163

03/18/2013

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

This release was reissued on March 15, 2013, to correct a statement in the text of the release. This statement incorrectly referred to a decrease in the real average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees as an increase. The sentence, "The increase was due to a 0.3 percent increase in average hourly earnings being more than offset by a 0.8 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)," was corrected to say "The decrease was due to a 0.3 percent increase in average hourly earnings being more than offset by a 0.8 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)."

162

03/08/2013

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Because of a data processing error related to seasonal adjustment, the March 2009 seasonally adjusted value for production employee average weekly overtime hours in nonupholstered wood household furniture was incorrectly published in the BLS database. The value was originally shown as −0.2 hour and was corrected to 0.0 hour on March 8, 2013.

161

03/05/2013

National Longitudinal Surveys

News release

America's Youth at 25: School Enrollment, Number of Jobs Held and Labor Market Activity: Results from a Longitudinal Survey (HTML) (PDF)

This release was reissued on March 5, 2013, to correct data in table 2 for Hispanics or Latinos with a bachelor's degree or more education. The percentage not in the labor force, which originally was shown as 4.7 percent, was corrected to say 10.5 percent.

Because of a data processing error related to rounding, a small number of historical values for different demographic characteristics, shown as percentages of total private nonfarm mass layoff initial claimants, were incorrectly published in the BLS database. Also, annual totals for 2001 were mistakenly published in the BLS database for three series, even though data for those series were only available for the third and fourth quarters of 2001. More information about the correction is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/mls_corrections_02152013.htm.

Because of a data processing error, the location quotient for Education, Training, and Library occupations in Guam was incorrectly shown in the chart and associated data table. The chart and data table were corrected on January 18, 2013.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on January 18, 2013. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on December 21, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

This release was reissued December 17, 2012, to correct data for the nonfinancial corporate sector. Measures for all other sectors were correct as published December 5. Measures for the nonfinancial corporate sector had not incorporated revised source data on output. All measures based on output, including productivity and unit labor costs, were affected for the period 2009 Q1 to 2012 Q1. Percent changes were subject to correction through 2012 Q2. Results for 2012 Q3 were correct as originally published. Corrected data are reflected in the text and tables C and 6 of this release.

Labor productivity and costs data for the nonfinancial corporate sector were corrected December 17, 2012. Measures for the nonfinancial corporate sector had not incorporated revised source data on output. All measures based on output, including productivity and unit labor costs, were affected for the period 2009 Q1 to 2012 Q1. Percent changes were subject to correction through 2012 Q2. Results for 2012 Q3 were correct as originally published. Only data in the nonfinancial corporate sector were affected. For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/lpc_nonfinancial_corporate_correction.htm.

A sentence in the section with the heading "Finished Goods" incorrectly said, "Prices for prepared poultry declined in the second quarter after rising from March to June." That sentence was corrected to say, "Prices for prepared poultry declined in the third quarter after rising from March to June."

150

12/13/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

This release was reissued December 12, 2012, to include a note about errors in data for women employees in the retail trade; trade, transportation, and utilities; private service-providing; total private; and total nonfarm industries. Additional information is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_retail_correction.htm.

149

12/12/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Estimates of women employees in three retail trade industries—other home furnishings stores, family clothing stores, and general merchandise stores—and some related series from the Current Employment Statistics survey were temporarily removed from the BLS data-retrieval system on December 12, 2012. For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_retail_correction.htm.

BLS has identified errors in the state government employment data in the Lubbock, Texas, metropolitan statistical area. The following series will removed temporarily from the database while BLS corrects the error:

State government (SMU48311809092000001), all employees, not seasonally adjusted

Federal government (SMU48311809091000001), all employees, not seasonally adjusted

BLS plans to release the corrected series in the database concurrent with the CES State and Area benchmark release on March 18, 2013. Research is ongoing to identify the full scope of the errors. Aggregate series that may be minimally affected by the corrections to the state government employment data include the following series in the Lubbock, Texas, metropolitan statistical area:

Total nonfarm (SMS48311800000000001 and SMU48311800000000001), all employees, both seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted

Service providing (SMU48311800700000001), all employees, not seasonally adjusted

Government (SMU48311809000000001), all employees, not seasonally adjusted

The version of the table posted on November 15, 2012, showed incorrect index values for August 2012 to November 2012. The table was corrected and reposted on November 16, 2012. No index values were changed in the CPI-U database or any other BLS publication.

The pie chart titled "Dallas-Fort Worth average annual expenditures 2010–11" was updated on Friday, November 2, 2012, to correct the percentage for Personal Insurance and Pensions. The incorrect share of 13 percent has been corrected to 12 percent.

The XLS version of this table was updated on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, to correct the net change in total assets and liabilities for all consumer units. The incorrect amount of $1,826 has been corrected to −$1,826. The PDF and TXT versions of the table were correct when originally published.

This release was reissued on Monday, October 15, 2012, to correct the name of the state in a sentence in the fourth paragraph. The corrected sentence now reads, "Men accounted for 54,000, or 45 percent, of all Virginia workers earning the prevailing minimum or less; they made up just 6.4 percent of all men who were paid hourly rates." The sentence previously referred to Pennsylvania.

On October 2, 2012, measures of output, output per hour, output per worker, value of production, implicit price deflator, and unit labor costs were revised for NAICS 3346 and NAICS 334 for 2008–2010. These revisions were made to ensure consistency with revised estimates developed during the update of multifactor productivity measures for detailed industries on September 26, 2012.

This release was reissued October 2, 2012, to include a note about changes to measures of output, output per hour, output per worker, value of production, implicit price deflator, and unit labor costs for NAICS 3346 and NAICS 334 for 2008–2010. The data for these industries were not revised in the news release. The revised measures are available from the online data query tool and in the industry labor productivity tables.

The article was reissued October 1, 2012, to make some wording changes. None of the tables or charts were affected by this change.

The first sentence in the first paragraph of the article was changed to "Health, retirement, and paid leave benefits made up more than three-fifths of private industry employer-provided benefit costs in March 2012.1" The sentence previously referred to June 2012.

The URL in footnote 1 was changed to direct readers to the archived version of the March 2012 news release on Employer Costs for Employee Compensation.

In the "Medical care plans" section of the article, the last sentence of the third paragraph was changed to say, "For low-wage employees with family coverage, the employee premium share required for employer-provided medical plans was approximately 40 percent higher than for high-wage workers." The sentence previously said "more than 40 percent higher."

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on September 21, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — July 2012 (HTML) (PDF)

This news release was reissued on August 31, 2012. Corrections were made to previously released employment data in table 5, and to the count of states with over-the-month employment gains and losses in paragraph two of the text.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on August 31, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On August 30, 2012, footnote 15 was corrected to say, "of the 150 fishers that incurred fatal injuries in the shellfish industry during the 2003–2009 period, 36 could be positively identified as shrimp fishermen." Previously the footnote had said crab fishermen instead of shrimp fishermen.

Corrections to labor force and unemployment estimates for substate areas in Arizona and North Carolina were published in the BLS database on August 29, 2012. The largest corrections occurred in Apache County in Arizona and the Burlington metropolitan area (equivalent to Alamance County) and Burlington city in North Carolina. Corrections to most other metropolitan areas in Arizona and North Carolina were small. Labor force and unemployment estimates for the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia-North Carolina, metropolitan area also were corrected because of small changes in the North Carolina portion. All of the affected areas have been footnoted in the BLS database.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, employment data for some metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on August 17, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

On August, 8, 2012, three median usual weekly earnings series were revised in the BLS database. The revisions changed some estimates for the 1979—1999 period by plus or minus $1 in the annual average current-dollar median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers 16 years and over. The affected series were for both sexes (LEU0252881500), men (LEU0252881800), and women (LEU0252882700). The estimates were revised to apply a consistent methodology for the complete historical series from 1979 to the present. The estimates that changed were not footnoted in the BLS database.

The news release on U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes published on August 10, 2012, included an error in the heading of one column in table 7. The heading for the first column originally said "Percent of U.S. imports" but was subsequently corrected to say "Relative importance June 2012." This correction also was made to two supplemental tables that were published at the same time as the news release. The tables affected are "Table 7. U.S. import price indexes for selected categories of goods by locality of origin" at https://www.bls.gov/web/ximpim/coor.htm and "Table 7. U.S. import price indexes and percent changes by locality of origin: July 2011 to July 2012" at https://www.bls.gov/web/ximpim/ippsloor.htm.

Corrections to labor force, employment, and unemployment estimates for numerous substate areas were published in the BLS database on August 1, 2012. These corrections stemmed from data errors for Delaware in January through April 2012 and for West Virginia in January and February 2012. The errors affected data for other states because of the nature of the estimation methodology for the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program. All substate areas in Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey, and some interstate areas shared with the District of Columbia, New York, and Pennsylvania, were affected for the months of January through April 2012. All substate areas in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia, and the Evansville, Indiana-Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area, were affected for January and February 2012. Three interstate areas that include parts of Tennessee were affected for February 2012. Most of the corrections outside of Delaware and West Virginia were small. All of the corrections have been footnoted in the BLS database.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, some employment, hours, and earnings estimates for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on July 23, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, some employment, hours, and earnings estimates for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on July 20, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

With the July 17, 2012, release of Consumer Price Index data for June 2012, sixteen series for Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas, that were incorrect and not intended for publication were erroneously published in the BLS database. The June 2012 data for these series subsequently were removed from the BLS database less than 3 hours after they were published. The release of these data did not constitute a disclosure of information about individual survey respondents. The information contained in the Consumer Price Index news release was not affected and remains unchanged.

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7/13/2012

New York Region

News release

Occupational Employment and Wages for Teachers in New York's Metropolitan Areas — May 2011 (HTML) (PDF)

This release was reissued on Thursday, July 12, 2012, to correct the title of the release.

Because of a data processing error related to the annual benchmark revisions of the survey, some employment, hours, and earnings estimates for some states and metropolitan statistical areas were incorrectly published in the BLS database. These estimates were corrected on June 15, 2012. More information about the corrections is available at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

Corrections were made to January and February 2012 data for five cities in Nevada (Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Reno, and Sparks), with unemployment rates increasing by 0.1 or 0.2 percentage point. Additionally, more substantial corrections were made to data for Taylorsville city, UT, from August 2011 through February 2012, including the 2011 annual averages.

This release was reissued on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, to correct the count of individuals in the nation working part time for economic reasons in 2011. The third paragraph of the release has been modified to incorporate that change.

123

5/22/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

On July 6, 2012, BLS corrected data series for book stores and news dealers and for electronics stores. The series had been removed from the BLS database on April 27, 2012, because of errors that resulted from the reconstruction of these series to fit the NAICS 2012 industry definitions. See https://www.bls.gov/bls/cesbook_stores_correction.htm for additional information about these corrections.

Due to a data processing error, data for various statewide estimates were incorrectly published in the database. These errors were corrected on May 18, 2012. More information on the corrections may be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

121

5/14/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Estimates of women employees in the U.S. Postal Service and some related series from the Current Employment Statistics survey were temporarily removed from the BLS data-retrieval system on May 14, 2012. BLS staff discovered data-processing errors that occurred during the November 2009–April 2012 period and resulted in an incorrect ratio of women employees to all employees. Corrections were made on May 25, 2012. These errors also affect series published in Employment Situation news releases. For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_usps_correction.htm.

120

5/14/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Estimates of women employees in the U.S. Postal Service and some related series from the Current Employment Statistics survey were temporarily removed from the BLS data-retrieval system on May 14, 2012. BLS staff discovered data-processing errors that occurred during the November 2009–April 2012 period and resulted in an incorrect ratio of women employees to all employees. Corrections were made on May 25, 2012. These errors also affect series published in Employment Situation news releases. For more information, see https://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_usps_correction.htm.

Due to a data processing error, corrections were made to January 2012 labor force, employment, and unemployment data for all substate areas in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, as well as the La Crosse, WI-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Sioux City-Vermillion, IA- NE-SD Combined Statistical Area.

Due to a data processing error, data for various statewide estimates were incorrectly published in the database and corrected on April 20, 2012. More information on the corrections may be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

This report was reissued on Friday, April 13, 2012,to correct errors in the expenditure shares reported for the United States and Canada. Housing expenditures for the United Kingdom and Japan exclude property taxes. Property taxes were mistakenly included within housing expenditures for the United States and Canada, making the estimated expenditure shares for each country noncomparable. The correction required the exclusion of property taxes from housing expenditures for the United States and Canada, resulting in a decrease in the share of housing expenditures and an increase in expenditure shares for all other categories for those countries.

This release was reissued on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, to correct errors in the seasonally adjusted January layoffs and discharges rates and levels in Table B on page 3 of the release. All seven January levels in Table B have been corrected along with the January rates for Total Private and for the South, Midwest, and West regions. Corrections only occur in the PDF version of the news release; the HTML version is correct as originally posted.

This release was reissued on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, to incorporate minor corrections to employment and labor force estimates for Montana. Montana's 2010 employment-population ratio changed from 59.7 to 59.9 percent, while its 2011 ratio changed from 59.8 to 59.7 percent, affecting the state counts for over-the-year employment-population ratio changes. The introductory paragraph of the release, as well as tables 1 and 2, have been modified accordingly.

Due to a data processing error, state employment estimates for Arizona, Connecticut, Louisiana, and Rhode Island were incorrectly published in the database and corrected on March 23, 2012. More information on the corrections may be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/sae_errata.htm.

This release was reissued on March 22, 2012, to make a correction. In the first paragraph in the GGS Scope section, the first sentence should have read, "The GGS scope contained 25,513,300 jobs, or 20.0 percent of the nation's total employment."

None of the tables were affected by this error.

111

3/13/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Real Earnings data were revised on Monday, March 12, 2012, to reflect a correction to the annual averages of average hourly earnings for all employees and annual averages of average weekly earnings for all employees. Only 2011 annual average data were corrected. These data were originally published on February 3, 2012 with the annual benchmark release.

110

3/12/2012

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

CPI Detailed Report — January 2012

The January 2012 CPI Detailed Report was reissued on March 12, 2012 to reflect changes to the relative importances for December 2011 using 2009-2010 weights, which were reissued on March 7, 2012. Tables 1, 3, 6, and 8 were corrected. The reissued January 2012 CPI Detailed Report is available at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpid1201.pdf.

The relative importances for December 2011 using 2009-2010 weights were reissued on March 7, 2012. A data anomaly impacting New York- New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA indexes resulted in flawed relative importances for New York, Northeast Size class A, Northeast, Size class A, and U.S. city average. The reissued relative importances are available at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpiri2011.pdf.

On February 21, 2012, corrections were made to the article, "Labor Force projections to 2020: a more slowly growing workforce," which appeared on pages 43–64 in the January 2012 issue.

In table 1, on page 44, the percent distribution for those of Hispanic origin in 2010 should have been 14.8 percent. Also in table 1, the projected percent change from 2010 to 2020 in the White non-Hispanic labor force should have been −1.5 percent.

On page 45, in the last paragraph of the Fertility section, the first sentence should have read "In the most recent Census Bureau projection of the resident population, used as the basis of the BLS labor force projections, the future fertility rate is assumed to remain close to the present level, roughly the replacement level of 2.1."

On page 46, in the first paragraph, the sentence beginning on the sixth line should have read, "According to the Census Bureau's population projections used in the 2010–2020 projections of the labor force, net immigration to the United States is expected to add 1.4 million people annually to the U.S. resident population."

107

3/2/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Employment Situation data were revised on Friday, March 2, 2012, to reflect corrections to series that were updated during the conversion to NAICS 2012, (https://www.bls.gov/ces/cesnaics12.htm#Scope_AE). Corrected data are limited to not seasonally adjusted all employee series and related derivative series for March 2010 and 2010 annual averages. These data were originally published on February 3, 2012 with the annual benchmark release.

Second Quarter 2011 Business Employment Dynamics data, originally published on February 1, 2012, were reissued on March 1, 2012. A programmatic error allowed for the inclusion of six series that were intended to be suppressed for North Dakota; however, these series did not constitute a disclosure of information about a single business establishment. The error also excluded six series intended to be published for Ohio. The information contained in the news release and on the supplemental data tables and charts were not impacted and remain unchanged from the original version.

105

3/2/2012

Occupational Employment Statistics

Other publication

Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2010

The mean hourly wage for flight attendants (published on https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes532031.htm) was found to contain an error. Within tables indicating the wage estimates for this occupation (located on multiple pages covering different industries, states, and metropolitan areas), the footnote assigned to those estimates was found to be incorrect and references to the hourly wage estimate were removed. The correct mean hourly wage (represented by footnote 4) was published on March 1, 2012.

104

2/28/2012

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Real Earnings data were revised on Monday, February 27, 2012, to reflect a correction to the annual averages of average hourly earnings for all employees and annual averages of average weekly earnings for all employees. Only 2010 annual average data were corrected. These data were originally published on February 3, 2012 with the annual benchmark release.

The Employment Projections 2010–2020 news release was reissued February 1, 2012 to make small corrections to table 8. The occupational group assigned to "Cooks, fast food" should have been "Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations" and the occupational group assigned to "Miscellaneous agricultural workers" should have been "Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations." None of the employment or education and training data were affected by this error.

Due to an error in fuel oil #2 prices for November and December 2011, selected average prices were corrected on February 2, 2012. Details on the nature of the corrections along with a complete list of corrected average prices may be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/cpi_corrections_02022012.htm.

100

2/2/2012

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

CPI Detailed Report — November 2011

The CPI Detailed Report for November 2011 was reissued due to an error in fuel oil #2 prices. Selected average prices were corrected on February 2, 2012. Details on the nature of the corrections along with a complete list of corrected average prices may be found at https://www.bls.gov/bls/errata/cpi_corrections_02022012.htm.

As initially released at 8:30 a.m. on December 16, 2011, the HTML version of table 5 of the news release (located at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t05.htm) incorrectly displayed data for table 1. The corrected version was reposted later in the morning on that same day. Table 5 was correct as initially posted in the PDF version of the news release. No other changes were made.

This release was reissued on Thursday, December 1, 2011, to correct data on hourly compensation and unit labor costs for Germany for 1991- 2010. Corrections can be found in tables 2 and 3, and chart 4. In addition, the following supplementary files were corrected:

Figures 36 and 37 in the printed and PDF versions of the 2010 OES Chartbook were published with the wrong maps. The HTML version is correct as originally published. The PDF version was corrected and placed on the BLS website on November 18, 2011.

The preliminary JOLTS estimates for August 2011 data did not reflect a necessary adjustment to account for a strike in the telecommunications industry—a part of the information sector. The final estimates for August 2011, as well as the preliminary estimates for September 2011, now reflect the adjustment.

Due to a data processing error, January 2009 through December 2010 employment estimates for the Medford, Oregon metropolitan area were incorrectly published in the database and corrected on October 28, 2011.

The Employment Situation of Veterans — 2010 (PDF) was reissued on Thursday, October 20, 2011, to correct an error in Table 3. The data for the educational attainment categories erroneously contained data for those age 18 and over instead of for those age 25 and over. The analyses in this release were not affected by the corrections.

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10/20/2011

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

News release

Real Earnings

As initially released at 8:30 A.M., the Explanatory Note of the HTML version of the Real Earnings news release for October 19, 2011 contained some incorrect information. In the section referring to "the deflator used for constant-dollar earnings," the specific Consumer Price Indexes were misidentified. Later in the day, a version of the Explanatory Note with the correct text was posted to the BLS website.

The correct text is: "The deflators used for constant-dollar earnings series presented in this release come from the Consumer Price Indexes Programs. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Employees (CPI-U) is used to deflate the all employees series, while the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate the production employees series." There were no changes in the data, analysis, or tables of the HTML version of the Real Earnings news release. The PDF version of the news release was not affected.

Starting May 17, 2011, the OES database query system provided customers with incorrect OES statewide "all occupations" employment and wage data for Alabama. The data below were added to the database on September 27, 2011 to correct the error.

Due to an error in utility (piped) gas service prices for April, May, and June 2011, selected indexes and average prices were corrected on August 18, 2011. Details on the nature of the corrections along with a complete list of corrected indexes and average prices may be found at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpi_notice_08182011.htm.

The CPI news release published on Thursday, August 18, 2011, contains minor corrections in Table 7 to selected values for February for Chained CPI-U data. On August 18, 2011, BLS reissued the April, May and June CPI news releases (originally published on May 13, 2011, June 15, 2011 and July 15, 2011, respectively) to correct the same values in Table 7 for April, May and June. No other data in the news releases were affected.

84

8/18/2011

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

CPI Detailed Report

April 2011

May 2011

June 2011

The CPI Detailed Reports for April 2011, May 2011, and June 2011 were reissued on August 18, 2011, in order to correct selected indexes and average prices.

The corrections result from errors in utility (piped) gas service prices for April, May and June, 2011 for Pittsburgh, Northeast size B/C and St. Louis (May and June only) used for the calculation of indexes and average prices. The complete list of corrected indexes and average prices may be found at https://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpi_notice_08182011.htm.

This release was reissued on Friday, August 12, 2011, to correct separations data for Arizona, the West region, and total nonfarm sector. Corrections can be found in the text and tables A, 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 12 and 13.

Due to a data entry error, the 2009 estimates for the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Truckee, CA-NV, and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA, areas were incorrectly published in the database and have now been corrected. All 2010 series are correct as originally published.

Data in the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Truckee, CA-NV, 2009 bulletin and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA, 2009 bulletin contained errors throughout due to a data entry error and have been corrected. All 2010 series are correct as originally published.

Headline for Regional and State Employment and Unemployment release (displayed on BLS home page)

The headline for the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment release (displayed on the BLS home page) issued on June 17, 2011 was corrected so that it now reads, "May jobless rates down in 24 states, up in 13; payroll jobs down in 27 states, up in 22."

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — April 2011 (HTML) (PDF)

This release was reissued on Friday, June 17, 2011 to correct the text in the last sentence of the second paragraph of the release. The text should have read: "The four states reporting over-the-year percentage declines in employment were New Jersey (-0.2 percent), and Kansas, New Mexico, and South Dakota (less than -0.1 percent each)."

Correction was made to the legend within the chart titled, "Unemployment rates, United States, Connecticut, and Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford Metropolitan Statistical Area, April 2010 and 2011."

The Extended Mass Layoffs, First Quarter 2011 data issued March 11, 2011, were found to contain errors. The number of layoff events in California were corrected to include an additional 4 events occurring during the reference quarter, also increasing the number of separated workers, increasing the number of separated workers in California by 506. These corrections increased the West region and national totals. Corrections were made to the data on May 27, 2011.

The Extended Mass Layoffs, First Quarter 2011 news release issued March 11, 2011, were found to contain errors. The number of layoff events in California were corrected to include an additional 4 events occurring during the reference quarter, also increasing the number of separated workers, increasing the number of separated workers in California by 506. These corrections increased the West region and national totals. Corrections were made to the news release on May 27, 2011.

Upon the release of metropolitan area employment data on April 27, 2011, an incorrect February 2011 estimate was published for the following series:

Total nonfarm, all employees (in thousands), seasonally adjusted - Kansas City, MO-KS
SERIES ID: SMS29281400000000001
The correct estimate of 958.4 was published on April 29, 2011.

66

4/15/2011

Consumer Price Index

Other publication

CPI Detailed Report — January 2011 and February 2011

The CPI news release published on Friday, April 15, 2011, contains minor corrections in Table 7 to selected values for February for Chained CPI-U data. On the afternoon of April 15, 2011, BLS reissued the January and February CPI news releases (originally published on February 17, 2011 and March 17, 2011, respectively) to correct the same values in Table 7 for January and February. No other data in the news releases are affected.

The corrections result from small errors found in the January and February 2011 indexes for CPI-U & CPI-W U.S. city average Intracity transportation and the CPI-U U.S. city average Intracity mass transit. The latter indexes were corrected in the BLS online database concurrent with the release of March CPI data on the morning of April 15. These indexes were corrected in the January and February CPI Detailed Reports.

The CPI news release published on Friday, April 15, 2011, contains minor corrections in Table 7 to selected values for February for Chained CPI-U data. On the afternoon of April 15, 2011, BLS reissued the January and February CPI news releases (originally published on February 17, 2011 and March 17, 2011, respectively) to correct the same values in Table 7 for January and February. No other data in the news releases are affected.

The corrections result from small errors found in the January and February 2011 indexes for CPI-U & CPI-W U.S. city average Intracity transportation and the CPI-U U.S. city average Intracity mass transit. The latter indexes were corrected in the BLS online database concurrent with the release of March CPI data on the morning of April 15. These indexes were corrected in the January and February CPI Detailed Reports.

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data published on March 11, 2011 were found to contain errors. The seasonally adjusted government and total nonfarm levels and rates did not include input from the 2010 decennial census in the January 2011 data and the revised data for October 2008 through December 2010. Monthly not seasonally adjusted estimates, as well as annual estimates, which are calculated from not seasonally adjusted estimates, were not affected by the error. Private sector estimates also were not affected by the error.

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data published in the January 2011 news release were found to contain errors. The seasonally adjusted government and total nonfarm levels and rates did not include input from the 2010 decennial census in the January 2011 data and the revised data for October 2008 through December 2010. Monthly not seasonally adjusted estimates, as well as annual estimates, which are calculated from not seasonally adjusted estimates, were not affected by the error. Private sector estimates also were not affected by the error.

The PDF and HTML versions of the Import and Export Price Indexes news was revised on March 16, 2011 to correct two typos. On page 3 of the release under "All exports", the sentence should be "Export prices rose 1.2 percent in February following a 1.3 percent advance the previous month", rather than January. On page 4 of the release under "Imports by Locality of Origin", the sentence should be "prices for imports from China continued to rise in February, increasing 0.4 percent for the second consecutive month.", rather than January.

A correction was made to the article "Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2010," which appeared on pages 38- 56 in the January 2011 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.

The first sub-heading on p.38 was corrected to:

Temporary Extension Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-144), enacted March 2, 2010

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2/24/2011

Import/Export Price Indexes

Other publication

U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes

In the January 2011 U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes news release, released February 15, 2011, the relative importance of the price index for import prices excluding food and fuels was incorrectly published; the corrected value is 70.969. The price index values and percent changes are correct. Relative importance measures the relative weight that an index's percent change had in comparison to the percent change for all imports. The relative importance of the price indexes for imports excluding food and fuels; foods, feeds, and beverages; and fuels and lubricants should sum to 100.

The following supplemental files contained the incorrect value that has been corrected:

In the January 2011 U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes news release, released February 15, 2011, the relative importance of the price index for import prices excluding food and fuels was incorrectly published in Table 1; the corrected value is 70.969. The price index values and percent changes are correct. Relative importance measures the relative weight that an index's percent change had in comparison to the percent change for all imports. The relative importance of the price indexes for imports excluding food and fuels; foods, feeds, and beverages; and fuels and lubricants should sum to 100.

On p.21, to the following paragraph:
Income estimates, which are impacted by the differences in household residency rules and the inclusion of all members of an address by ACS, compared with only members of the CU by CE, are 94 percent and 93 percent of ACS estimates.

On p.22, data in table 6, "Comparison of characteristics and average annual expenditures for selected items, Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and American Community Survey, (ACS) 2006–07" were corrected

On p.21, to the following paragraph:
Income estimates, which are impacted by the differences in household residency rules and the inclusion of all members of an address by ACS, compared with only members of the CU by CE, are 94 percent and 93 percent of ACS estimates.

On p.22, data in table 6, "Comparison of characteristics and average annual expenditures for selected items, Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and American Community Survey, (ACS) 2006–07" were corrected

Employment Cost Index data for June 2009 through September 2010, as originally published, contained errors for several series. Corrections for the affected series were posted on the BLS Web site on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. The primary errors were in wage and salary data for State and local government public administration. Additional series were corrected as well. For more information, please refer to a notice on the details of the corrections to ECI data.

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11/16/2010

Mass Layoff Statistics

News release

Mass Layoff Statistics

Monthly national Mass Layoffs data for April through September 2010 have been found to contain errors in each of the 6 seasonally adjusted series appearing in the charts, the text, and tables 1 and 3 of the news releases listed below. Not seasonally adjusted data and regional office news releases are not affected. The corrected seasonally adjusted estimates for April through September were loaded in the Mass Layoffs database on November 16, 2010.

The following national news releases contain incorrect seasonally adjusted data:

On November 10, 2010, monthly national Mass Layoffs data for April through September 2010 were found to contain errors in each of the 6 seasonally adjusted series. Not seasonally adjusted data and regional office news releases were not affected. The corrected seasonally adjusted estimates for April through September were loaded in the Mass Layoffs database on November 16, 2010.

42

10/25/2010

State and Local Unemployment Rates

News release

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment —September 2010 (HTML) (PDF)

The Regional and State Employment and Unemployment release was re-issued October 22, 2010,to correct incorrect state unemployment data in Table A.

Upon the release of U.S. Import and Export Price Index data on October 13, 2010, May 2010 data were corrected for the following indexes (broken out by classification system, with the exception of Locality of Origin Indexes (LOO), which are not part of a classification system):

Several columns in Table 4 of the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation—December 2009 release were incorrectly formatted. Cost estimates that should have been displayed to two decimal points (e.g., $9.99) were only displayed to one decimal point (e.g., $9.9). This problem did not impact the PDF version of the release.

The PDF and HTML versions of the news release were revised on September 21, 2010. The table 1 heading under "Index" and "Percent change from" describing the 1st and 2nd half of 2009 and 2010 was revised so that the correct half years are shown.

38

9/9/2010

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

Real Earnings data were revised at 2:00 pm EDT on Thursday, September 9th, 2010, to reflect a correction to the annual averages of average hourly earnings for all employees and annual averages of average weekly earnings for all employees. Annual average data has been corrected for 2007, 2008, and 2009.

The PDF version of the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment news release for July 2010 was re-issued on August 20th, 2010 to delete extraneous text in the footnotes in tables 5 and 6. There were no changes to the data. The HTML version of the release was not affected.

On page 4, the last bulleted item incorrectly had the word millions behind the figures for quits and layoffs and discharges. The corrected text now reads, "In May 2010, there were 1,877,000 quits and 1,865,000 layoffs and discharges."

Due to an error in the collection of utility (piped) gas service prices in the Northeast, Consumer Price Index (CPI) News releases for January through May 2010 were re-issued to correct chained CPI-U data in Table 7 of the releases. The text of the releases was not affected. The re-issued news releases correct for errors in the January through April 2010 data for the following series:

Due to an error in the collection of utility (piped) gas service prices in the Northeast, Consumer Price Index (CPI) Detailed reports for January through May 2010 were re-issued. The re-issued detailed reports correct for errors in the January through April 2010 data for the following series.

Series type

Title

Area

Series id

CPI-U

Utility (piped) gas service

Northeast size B/C

CUUR0000SEHF02

CPI-W

Utility (piped) gas service

Northeast size B/C

CWUR0000SEHF02

Chained CPI-U

All items

U.S. City Average

SUUR0000SA0

Chained CPI-U

Housing

U.S. City Average

SUUR0000SAH

Chained CPI-U

Fuels and utilities

U.S. City Average

SUUR0000SAH2

Chained CPI-U

Services

U.S. City Average

SUUR0000SAS

Chained CPI-U

Energy

U.S. City Average

SUUR0000SA0E

Average prices

Utility (piped) gas—40 therms

Northeast size B/C

APUX10072601

Average prices

Utility (piped) gas—100 therms

Northeast size B/C

APUX10072611

Average prices

Utility (piped) gas per therm

Northeast size B/C

APUX10072620

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7/9/2010

Industry Productivity and Costs

Other publication

Employment and Hours of All Persons

Measures of employment and hours for 2007, 2008, and 2009 have been corrected for NAICS 33313, mining and oil and gas field machinery manufacturing and related aggregate industries. Other minor corrections have been made to measures for the following industries and related aggregates: NAICS 32199, 491110, 541810, 541921, and 561720.

Measures of employment, hours, and productivity for 2007 and 2008 have been corrected for NAICS 33313, mining and oil and gas field machinery manufacturing and related aggregate industries. Other minor corrections have been made to measures for the following industries and related aggregates: NAICS 2123, 21311, 2211, 32199, 3314, 33331, 33399, 334413, 33451, 482111, 491110, 541810, 541921, 561311, and 561720.

The release was reissued on July 9, 2010 to correct errors in measures of employment, hours, and productivity for NAICS 3331, agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing and NAICS 333, machinery manufacturing. Other minor corrections have been made to measures for the following industries: NAICS 321, 3219, 482111, 491, 4911, 541921, 561311, 56172. Corrections have been made to tables 1 and 2; no changes were required to the text and the charts in the news release.

Regional and State Employment and Unemployment — May 2010 (HTML) (PDF)

The release was reissued on June 24, 2010 to correct several Statewide May 2010 preliminary employment estimates for Texas. The estimates previously released on June 18, 2010 did not fully capture the impact of Census worker hiring. Affected series are included in the table below with corrected values shown. Metropolitan Area estimates were not affected by this correction.

The April 2010 index value (not seasonally adjusted) for the New York Metropolitan Area's All Items Less Shelter (Series ID: CUURA101SA0L2) was corrected to 212.634. During the testing of a new software platform, this number was found to be incorrectly rounded.

Occupational Pay Relative news releases for 2004–08 were found to contain errors in identifying statistical significance (currently denoted by an asterisk) for areas significantly different at the 10 percent level of significance. Pay relative estimates were not impacted. National news releases were reissued with all notations for statistical significance removed. Regional news releases for this time period were also affected, but are not being revised or reissued.

Occupational Pay Relative supplemental area–to–area comparison tables for 2004–08 data were found to contain errors in identifying statistical significance (currently denoted by an asterisk) for areas significantly different at the 10 percent level of significance. Pay relative estimates were not impacted. National and regional tables were reissued with all notations for statistical significance removed.

The error associated with the November 2009 index level data only affected the final indexes for November as issued on April 22; previously- published preliminary estimates for November were correct. (All PPIs are subject to revision 4 months after original publication to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents. The error was introduced when revised November data were issued on April 22.) Indexes for all other data series and for months other than November 2009 are correct as published. Tables and charts indicating percent change between October to November and between November to December were corrected.

The error associated with the November 2009 index level data only affected the final indexes for November as issued on April 22; previously- published preliminary estimates for November were correct. (All PPIs are subject to revision 4 months after original publication to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents. The error was introduced when revised November data were issued on April 22.) Indexes for all other data series and for months other than November 2009 are correct as published.

The error associated with the November 2009 index level data only affected the final indexes for November as issued on April 22; previously- published preliminary estimates for November were correct. (All PPIs are subject to revision 4 months after original publication to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents. The error was introduced when revised November data were issued on April 22.) Indexes for all other data series and for months other than November 2009 are correct as published. Tables and charts indicating percent change between October to November and between November to December were corrected.

National Nonfarm Payroll Statistics (from the Current Employment Statistics Survey)

News release

Real Earnings

At release time (8:30 a.m) on April 14, 2010, the abstract posted to the BLS home page for the Real Earnings news release contained an error. Immediately following the release, the text was corrected and the following abstract was posted:

"Real average hourly earnings for all employees fell 0.2 percent from February to March, seasonally adjusted. This decrease stems from a 0.1 percent decrease in average hourly earnings and a 0.1 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). Real average weekly earnings rose 0.1 percent over the month."

The HTML version of the release was re-issued on April 9, 2010 to correct one rounding error in table 1 and two rounding errors in table 2. Additionally, it corrects minor errors in characteristic titles in table 4. The PDF version of the release was not affected.

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — January 2010 (HTML) (PDF)

Within the section of the release titled, "Metropolitan Area Nonfarm Employment (Not Seasonally Adjusted)", the first sentence of the third paragraph contained an error. A correction was made to the number of metropolitan areas with annual average employment levels above 750,000 in 2009. The correct sentence now reads as follows, "Over the year, nonfarm employment declined in all 36 metropolitan areas with annual average employment levels above 750,000 in 2009."

Time series data for all compensation components in private industry in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas was inadvertently published beyond the Q04/2008 reference period. In total, 108 series were affected.

In the Latest trends in payroll and household survey employment table on the first page, the over-the-month change (January-February 2010) in Household survey employment was originally published with a negative sign. The table entry has been corrected.

The release was reissued on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, to correct an error in the "Separations" section on page 3 of the text. The stated change in the number of quits between December 2006 and April 2009 was corrected to 1.4 million.

The HTML version of the release was reissued to replace the incorrect table A-13 which had May 2007 and May 2008 data instead of December 2008 and December 2009 data. The PDF version of the release was not affected. This correction did not affect any analysis in the release.

BLS errata, 2009

Errata ID

Date Added

Subject Area

Content Type

Title (if applicable)

Description

7

12/17/2009

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)

News release

County Employment and Wages In Hawaii — First Quarter 2009 (HTML) (PDF)

Within the news release titled, "County Employment and Wages In Hawaii — First Quarter 2009", the last three rows were omitted from table 2 on page 5 of the release. This omission occurred only in the PDF version of the release.

In table 32 (HTML) (PDF), displaced workers by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and employment status, of the Women in the Labor Force: A Databook publication, 2009 edition, data for women and men by racial groups at the bottom of the table were transposed.

In table 32 (PDF), displaced workers by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and employment status, of the Women in the Labor Force: A Databook publication, 2008 edition, data for women and men by racial groups at the bottom of the table were transposed.

This release was reissued on December 4, 2009, to correct the key findings section for the increase in injuries and illnesses for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers to 4 percent in 2008. Additionally, it corrects phrasing in the 4th sentence of the first paragraph and 4 rounding errors elsewhere in the text.

The HTML version of the supplemental data analysis release was reissued on November 24, 2009 to correct an error misstating the number of separated workers associated with the total extended mass layoff events in the second quarter of 2009. The correction has been made to the text in the "Data" section.

The HTML version of this news release was reissued on November 5, 2009, to correct errors in Table 7. Certain rows of that table contained data that were repeated from elsewhere in the table. Table 7 was correct as initially posted in the PDF version of the Workplace Injuries and Illnesses -- 2008 news release.

This news release was reissued on March 31, 2009 to correct selected data within the mining and railroad industries that were misclassified by BLS. Except for these industries, the corrections resulted in minor changes for the category musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and selected nature, event or exposure, and source categories. Corrections have been made to text in the first bullet under "Key Finding" and in the MSD section; charts A and B; and tables 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 23.